Geographic Locations

The Strait of Gibraltar lies between Spain and Gibraltar in Europe and Morocco in Africa. It connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea. The Strait is 7.7 miles wide at its narrowest point. This image is from Hammond's Unabridged Atlas & Gazeteer of the World, published by C. S. Hammond & Co., Inc., New York, 1924, page 42. (Collections of Penobscot Marine Museum)

The Strait of Magellan connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean just north of Cape Horn, which is the southernmost tip of the continent of South America. This map image is from Hammond's Unabridged Atlas and Gazeteer of the World, published by C. S. Hammond & Co., Inc., New York, 1924, page 121. (Collections of Penobscot Marine Museum)

Fishing a herring weir at low tide, near Eastport, Maine. This image is from G. Brown Goode's seminal work The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 132. This book can be found online at NOAA.

Herring drying on the flakes in the sun; landing, cleaning, washing, &c., at sardine cannery, Eastport, Maine. Herring too large for canning as sardines were dried and and sometimes smoked. The last smoked sardine plant, McCurdy's Smoke House in Lubec, was forced to close in 1990 as it could not meet today's sanitation regulations.

This image is from G. Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States, 1884-1887, Section V, Plate 140. This book can be found online at NOAA.